Ramona Lisa Alexander

Female

Dedham, MA

United States

Profile Information:

Member's contact info (email and phone or agent):

email: ramunette@gmail.com
phone: please email

Member's age range:

21-25, 26-30, 31-35, 46-50, 51-55, 56-60

Member's Affiliations:

AEA

Member's PHYSICAL TRAITS (use format on the "Before Applying" page)

African American
Distinctive feature: hands & eyes
Height: 5'10
Weight: 165


Skills: SAFD Recognized Actor-Combatant (Rapier, Quarter Staff, and Unarmed), Voice ( Alto). Great with children, modeling, bicycle mechanics, Basic Circus Training (spool walking, wheel, and balance). General Movement: Afro Brazilian, Caribbean Folk, Hip Hop, Improv, and Interpretive

Recent noteworthy acting experience (use the format on the Before Applying page):

Regional
Production: Role: Company:

Breath Boom: Jupiter, Huntington Theatre Company, dir. Michael John Garces

To Kill A Mocking Bird: Calpurnia, Montana Repertory Theater, dir Greg Johnson

Christmas Carol: Christmas Past Berkshire Theatre Festival, dir. Eric Hill

Post Cards From Earth***: Principal, The Guthrie Theater, dir. Marcela Lorca
Intimate Apparel: Esther, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre, Jeff Zinn/Stephen Russell

Boston-Area

Are You Ready, My Sister: Harriet Tubman, Underground Railway Theater, dir. Debra Wise

Public Art Acts: Ensemble, Underground Railway Theater

Harriet Jacobs: Grandmother, Providence Black Rep & Underground Railway Theater

103 Within the Veil**: Virg, Company One, dir. Victoria Marsh

365 Days/365 Plays: Principal, Company One

In the Blood: Hester/La Negrita, Zeitgeist Stage Company, dir. David Miller

In the Continuum~: Nia/Others, Up You Mighty Race Theater Co, dir Akiba Abaka

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone*: Martha, Up You Mighty Race Theater Co, dir. Akiba Abaka

For Colored Girls…: Lady in Grey, Up You Mighty Race Theater Co

The Drinking Gourd: Sara, Up You Mighty Race Theater Co

Macbeth: Macbeth, Shakespeare Now Theatre Company

Romeo & Juliet: Benvolio, Shakespeare Now Theatre Co., dir David Wheeler

Midsummer: Helena, Shakespeare Now Theatre Company

Marisol: Angel, Orfeo Group

365 Days/365 Plays: Writer, The Nora Theatre Company

Uncle Tom’s Cabin:Topsy, Coyote Theatre

La Casa de Bernarda Alba: Martirio, TheatreZone

Upcoming projects:
A Moon for the Misbegotten playing Josie with the Nora Theatre Company
Ti Jean collaboration w/ URT & The Boston PlayWrights' Theatre


Brandeis Theatre Company

As You Like It: Rosalind
Three Musketeers: Constance w/ Double Edge Theatre, dir. Stacey Klein
The Dream Project: Principal dir. Jon Lipsky
Balm and Gilead: Rust dir. Elizabeth Terry
The Waiting Room: Brenda dir. Janet Morrison
The Bacchae: Chorus dir. Eric Hill
The Suicide: Margarita dir. Dmitry Troyanovsky
Big Love: Eleanor dir. E. Gray Simons, III

*Nominated for an IRNE Award Best Supporting Actress
**Recipient of the IRNE Award Best Supporting Actress
~Nominated for an Eliot Norton Award Best Production
*** Studio

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TRAINING
Acting for the Camera: Nancy Doyle 2008

Edna Manley School of Visual and Performing Arts, Jamaica 2006
Summer-Long Intensive, Caribbean Folk Traditional Dance History and Dance Techniques:
·Various instructors including Barry Moncrieffe, Arsenio Andrade Calderon and Barbara Requa

Guthrie Experience, Minnesota 2007
Summer-Intensive, Text Workshop, and performance studio:
·Ken Washington in acting, Scott Kaiser (Oregon Shakespeare Company) and Andrew Wade in text analysis, and Marcela Lorca in movement

Suzuki: Eric Hill, Adrianne Krstansky 2005-2008

Brandeis University: MFA Acting 2008

Circus Training 06-07
·Clowning: Susan Dibble, Brandeis University
·Basic Circus Acrobatics: Spool/ Ball Balancing,
Counterweight Object Training: Double Edge Theatre Company

Other non-acting related work, hobbies or charities (not skills) in which this actor is involved (1 or 2 word descriptions):

Bicycle mechanics, modeling, Big Sister/Mentor, Expressive Art Therapy, theater education consulting, poetry, working with children, African Folk/Improv/Dance, Shiatsu, Fashion, Traveling, Big Sisters Association, Learning Kriolu right now

VOICE ARTISTS ONLY [you must have a professional demo to upload]: illustrative 1-word descriptions for this actor's voice (e.g. conversational, announcer, warm, etc.):

Dialects: Standard British, American & South African.
Also has great voice control and can manipulate many different voices, classically trained and learns very quickly.
Example did a production, spanish-speaking only, with two weeks rehearsal.

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